Veteran wing Kelsey Barlow will get a chance to rescue his college basketball career by transferring to Illinois-Chicago, where coach Howard Moore welcomed the former Purdue Boilermaker with the declaration, "We’re excited to bring a player of Kelsey’s caliber into our program.”

Barlow was dismissed from the Purdue program in February by coach Matt Painter after an incident at a bar that led to the arrest of a Boilers teammate. Barlow later admitted to The Exponent, Purdue’s student paper, “I was at the bar and I wasn’t supposed to be there.”

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He previously had been suspended at the close of the 2011 season, missing the team’s appearance in the NCAA Tournament for “conduct detrimental to the team."

Barlow (6-5, 200) was a three-year regular and averaged 8.3 points and 3.7 rebounds in his final season with the Boilers.

Originally from Indianapolis, Barlow must sit out the coming season and will have one more year of eligibility to spend in 2013-14.

“I coached against Kelsey during his great freshman season when I was at Wisconsin and have always been impressed with his skill set,” Moore said in a statement. “He will be a great asset to our younger players every day in practice during his transfer year, and as a senior I expect him to be one of the better players in the Horizon League.”

At the time of his dismissal by Purdue, Barlow did not publicly claim to have been wronged by the program and neither did his family.

"I appreciate all that coach Painter and all of the coaching staff has done for Kelsey and the Barlow family," his father, Ken, told The Exponent in February. "I appreciate it all. It's just an unfortunate situation, and hopefully everything will be better going forward for everybody—for Kelsey and Purdue."